DISTINGUISHED HOME RULER

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 94, 20 April 1912, Page 10

DISTINGUISHED HOME RULER

Sir Frederick Pollock is distinguish?!! as a jurist, a philosopher, a historian, an authority on the Constitution, and iv the days of Mr. Gladstone's first and second Home Rule Bills he was a convinced and ardent Unionist The Ulster Unionists have converted him to Home Rule (says the London Daily . News). Sir Frederick Pollock, in a letter says :— "Twenty-five years ago I was a convinced Unionist, hoping that the Ulster Unionists were abandoning their ideas of ascendency and would work with British statesmen for the improvement of Irish goverinnent under the Union — an end which. l believed and stiil believe was then practicable with good will and good sense. What has that party done? It has nob stirred a finger for the amendment of notoriously absurd methods of administration. It has wrecked Mr. Balfour's scheme of University settlement. It has played into the hands of the extreme Nationalists in wrecking a moderate scheme of devolution which commanded the assent of many Unionists in England, as well as Great Britain, not to speak of its pait in frustrating the ondeavours of its more generous and far-seeing British uiliee in the confer, ence of 1910. It has obstructed agricultural development. It has made Lord Dunruvan, v leading Irish Protestant Conservative, v Home Ruler. I am reluctantly convinced that its ideas, are still not of equality, but of ascendency ; and the action of Sir E. Cureon and his companions tit Belfast would havo com' pleted that conviction if nioie pioof had been wanting. That ip why I ani ,vow,, a Hume Huleiv'- 1 ~ >»